'Childrens meals'
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chymaera said:
What's that supposed to mean?
My children eat what they are given. I do make allowances for genuine dislikes and will replace say, pasta with a baked potato for my teenager. But they are not allowed to say they don't like something unless they have actually tried it.
pogofish
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Riight!
You probably won't believe this but I have been to the hospital this morning & the Registrar, in all seriousness, tried to tell me that a childrens meal was invariably better for us than an adult dish - Apparently because of fat content/portion size.
Mind you, the same twat started-on about my bmi being too high but made no allowances for my buid/musculature.
You probably won't believe this but I have been to the hospital this morning & the Registrar, in all seriousness, tried to tell me that a childrens meal was invariably better for us than an adult dish - Apparently because of fat content/portion size.
Mind you, the same twat started-on about my bmi being too high but made no allowances for my buid/musculature.
Gromit
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pogofish said:
Did he mean adults would be better off eating childrens meals as opposed to children are?
Portion size wise he is probably right. i know my portions tend to be too big and i was trained to finish my plate, a habit I'm trying to break but find very hard.
ymu
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From the little I've absorbed about child psychology .... even if you feed your kids a huge variety of interesting foods from a very early age many if not most will go through a fussy period (early school age IIRC but I'm not sure). I know a child who happily ate olives and raw pickled garlic and anything her parents were eating from toddlerhood but still went a bit faddy for a while.
This can be pretty hard for some parents to deal with - especially if they're already worried that their child might be on a low percentile of the growth charts we all have coming out of our ears these days. It's exacerbated by the fussiness tending to coincide with shitey school meals that reinforce junk food preferences. Parents aren't superhuman, and sometimes they pick the "wrong" battles (or maybe the right one for their circumstances).
This is an excuse for some types of restaurant to offer a kids menu if required, but I agree - it's bloody awful that it's become the norm rather than something that the chef can dig out of the freezer in an emergency.
This can be pretty hard for some parents to deal with - especially if they're already worried that their child might be on a low percentile of the growth charts we all have coming out of our ears these days. It's exacerbated by the fussiness tending to coincide with shitey school meals that reinforce junk food preferences. Parents aren't superhuman, and sometimes they pick the "wrong" battles (or maybe the right one for their circumstances).
This is an excuse for some types of restaurant to offer a kids menu if required, but I agree - it's bloody awful that it's become the norm rather than something that the chef can dig out of the freezer in an emergency.
scifisam
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The options on kids' menus do have one advantage - they tend not to need cutting up and tend to be very easy to manage with simple cutlery (or with no cutlery). That makes eating out with your kids a lot simpler and less stressful. Plus, for most places it would be very difficult offering half-size portions of every adult meal - double the number of price options to put in the till, double the number of meals to ready-prepare, that sort of thing.
Perhaps the best thing would be a compromise, with half-sized kids; portions of different kinds of food, or a more interesting kids' menu. Shepherd's pie, for instance, or lasagne, or smaller vegetable pies.
When we eat out it's usually at a cafe, where we order two adult meals and share them between the three of us (and still end up with leftovers). Or it's at places like Vietnamese restaurants where we all order food to share anyway.
Other countries' food cultures do tend to be more based around platters of food in the middle of the table from which everyone takes a bit, and that does make it much easier to feed children. When you have a food culture where people get one plateful of an individual meal, like Britain, Ireland and, in some respects, Germany, it's more difficult for food service venues to adapt.
Perhaps the best thing would be a compromise, with half-sized kids; portions of different kinds of food, or a more interesting kids' menu. Shepherd's pie, for instance, or lasagne, or smaller vegetable pies.
When we eat out it's usually at a cafe, where we order two adult meals and share them between the three of us (and still end up with leftovers). Or it's at places like Vietnamese restaurants where we all order food to share anyway.
Other countries' food cultures do tend to be more based around platters of food in the middle of the table from which everyone takes a bit, and that does make it much easier to feed children. When you have a food culture where people get one plateful of an individual meal, like Britain, Ireland and, in some respects, Germany, it's more difficult for food service venues to adapt.
I think it's a massive con by food companies that kids need 'special' food, they don't - espcially the bland overprocessed pap most places serve as kids meals. Kids should be given the same choices as adults, and allowed to cook & get messy in the kitchen from an early age, then they don't grow up like a woman I work with who is pregnant and asked me the other day 'What's protein?' - doesn't eat fish, broccoli, houmus, etc etc. Same woman phoned the police when she saw her neighbour feeding his dog with dead rabbits 
Despite the masses of cookery and healthy eating shows on TV, a trip round any supermarket will show you that many people still eat a crap diet. I think a lot of behavioural probs in kids are down to their diet.
Despite the masses of cookery and healthy eating shows on TV, a trip round any supermarket will show you that many people still eat a crap diet. I think a lot of behavioural probs in kids are down to their diet.chymaera said:
couln't agrre more. all they have to do is children sized portion, that's all. although i must say, things do chnge slowly with all the Mc Donald and similar crappy places
susie12 said:
some people really need reeducation
chymaera said:
My youngest (4 year old) has been known to have a head fit in a restaurant because they don't have mussels on the menu.
I totally fail to see why people would want to eat good food themselves and then feed their kids a pile of crap that is horribly bad for them
(Although having the fussiest child in the world as my middle boy, I do understand that it isn't always possible to make children do what you want them to)
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